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   correlative

   /kəˈrɛlətɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. having a mutual relationship; corresponding: "rights, whether moral or legal, can involve correlative duties"
   • ▪ (of words such as neither and nor) corresponding to each other and regularly used together.

   noun

   • 1. a word or concept that has a mutual relationship with another word or concept: "the child's right to education is a correlative of the parent's duty to send the child to school"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from medieval Latin correlativus, from cor- ‘together’ + late Latin relativus (see relative).

   Derivatives

   • 1. correlatively adverb
   • 2. correlativity noun

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

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